The 7th Asia-Pacific International Symposium
on Electromagnetic Compatibility & Signal Integrity and
Technical Exhibition (2016 APEMC) has been successfully held in
Shenzhen, China, during May 18 to 21, 2016. Shenzhen is selected to
host the 7th APEMC because of its strategic adjacency to Hong Kong, its
pioneering status of being China’s Window to the World, and
its fabulous facilities and being home of world-class electronic
industries and research centers. The APEMC symposium is an important
forum for world-wide EMC communities with a primary focus in the
Asia-Pacific region.
The 2016 APEMC was jointly organized and technically co-sponsored by
Zhejiang University, IEEE EMC Society, South University of Science and
Technology of China , Hebei University of Technology, National
University of Defense Technology, CEMEE Lab China, Antenna and
Microwave lab China, China Electrotechnical Society,
2016 APEMC received close to 500 submissions from 31 countries and
regions. 388 papers are accepted and presented at the conference.
Besides 16 regular technical sessions, it also included two keynote
speeches, three plenary talks, one industry Luncheon talk, 14 special
sessions, 8 workshops, 8 tutorials, 19 invited papers, and 1 industry
forum. Four embedded topical mini-symposiums covered hot EMC-related
areas: Integrated Circuit (IC) EMC, Wireless Power Transfer
Technologies, Smart Grid & Power Electronics EMC, and
Biomedical Electromagnetics. 2016 APEMC covered a full scope of EMC:
from IC to system, from electronics to bioengineering, from
measurements to modeling, from traditional topics to emerging
technologies, from standards and regulations to EMC paper writing. 2016
APEMC has attracted 472 delegates including 169 students, and 700
exhibition visitors.

Breakdown
of all submitted papers according to countries/regions

Opening Ceremony and Keynote
Speeches

Professor Er-Ping LI, General Chair of the
2016 APEMC, addressed the symposium participants at the Opening
Ceremony in the morning of 19 May. Subsequently, Professor Lijun JIANG
from University of Hong Kong, TPC chair of the 2016 APEMC, gave his
speech on behalf of the technical committee. The 2016 APEMC was
thereafter declared open by Professor Shi-Yi CHEN, President of South
University of Science and Technology of China, Member of Chinese
Academy of Sciences. In his opening address, he highly praised all EMC
researchers for being always riding throughout the Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) waves: the Internet, the Mobile
Internet, the Internet-of-Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence and
Robotics. Two eminent scientists delivered their keynote at the opening
ceremony: Dr. Frank Leferink, Thales Group, the Netherlands, gave a
speech titled “Interfered Technology: A Radiant
Future”; Dr Li Li, Principal Scientist, from Huawei
Technologies Co. Ltd, Shenzhen, gave a speech titled “The Key
Technologies and the Challenges in the Development of 5G
Communication.”

Professor
Er-Ping, General Symposium Chair, delivered his opening address to the
conference delegates at the opening ceremony of the 2016 APEMC.

Professor
Lijun JIANG, TPC chair, gave his speech on behalf of the technical
program committee.

Professor
Shi-Yi CHEN, President of South University of Science and Technology of
Chin and Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences, declared open of the
2016 APEMC.

Dr. Frank Leferink, Thales Group, the Netherlands, delivered his
keynote speeches at the opening ceremony in the morning of 19 May.

Plenary Talks and Technical Sessions

Three
eminent scientists also delivered plenary speeches in the afternoon of
19 May and morning of 20 May during the technical sessions. They are
Professor Weng Cho Chew from University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign; Professor Tzong-Lin WU from National Taiwan
University; and Professor Jun Fan, from Missouri University of Science
and Technology.

Professor
Weng Cho Chew was giving his plenary speech to a full house in the
afternoon of 19 May.

Five
parallel sessions were conducted each day from 18 to 21 May 2016. The
first day of the conference was dominated by workshops and tutorial
with a few technical paper sessions. The rest three days were mainly
occupied by technical paper sessions mixed with workshops, tutorials,
and topical symposiums.

Conference
delegates listening to a talk at a technical session.

Participants
at a poster session.

The
Q & A session was still fresh with vigor at a technical session
on Saturday, the last day of the symposium.

Banquet
dinner and award presentations

The
highlight among all 2016 APEMC social events was the banquet dinner cum
award presentations, held at the Ball Room, Maco Polo Hotel. Following
Professor Er-Ping Li’s toast, an exciting FOU drum beating
performance in colorful ancient Chinese costumes was performed. FOU, a
special type of ancient drum, was a percussion instrument used in China
about 2700 years ago. FOU was usually made of clay or copper. If the
conference delegates were to live 2700 years ago, they would use small
FOU as the containers to hold wines at the banquet dinner. This same
performance has been conducted in the opening ceremony of the
2008 Beijing Olympic.

Conference delegates enjoyed the
Chinese FOU drum beating performance right before the dinner.

On
one hand, the 2016 APEMC won’t be able to succeed comfortably
without the generous support by many sponsors, Compliance Direction
System Inc, Huawei Tech Ltd, CST, Keysight, AR RF/Microwave
Instrumentation and 3Ctest. On the other hand, a wonderful
symposium will never complete without awards. Prof. Wen-Yan Yin, Award
Chair, introduced to audiences how the best papers were shortlisted and
selected. Professor Marcello D’amore, Sapienza University of
Rome, gave out the three best symposium paper awards. As always, every
APEMC gives out best student paper awards. This year’s best
student paper awards are generously supported by Huawei. Mr. Ronghua
Zhong, Director of Huawei Technologies gave out three best student
paper awards.
Among all the APEMC delegates, there is one group of people who are
holding the future of EMC - the young researchers. For the first time
in the short history of APEMC, this year’s APEMC has
specially created Young Scientist Awards to recognize outstanding young
EMC researchers. Dr. Perry Wilson and Prof. Er-Ping LI presented the
awards to 8 young scientists aged 38 years and below. They are Dr Qi
Wu, Dr Flavia GRASSI, Liang Zhou, Dr Henglin Chen, Dr Zhanqing Yu, Ms
Haiyan Xie, Dr Yuichi HAYASHI, and Chung-Hao TSAI.

APEMC
Young Scientist Awardees poised for a group photo with Prof. Er-Ping LI
and Dr. Perry Wilson.

All successful symposiums have
one thing in common --- an excellent organising team. Prof. Er-Ping LI
first presented a token of appreciation to last year’s APEMC
Symposium Chair, Prof. Tzong-Lin Wu, National Taiwan University; then
he proceeded to present token of appreciations to the 2016 APEMC
organizing team.

The
2016 APEMC organizing committee took a group photo at the banquet
dinner on 20 May.

EMC Society
board hosted
luncheon

On 18 May, IEEE EMC Society board hosted a luncheon meeting. Don
Heirman was delegated by Frank Sabath, president of the IEEE EMC
Society, to head the IEEE EMC board delegates to further engage and
discuss with APEMC organizers. Through the luncheon meeting, EMC
society delegates and Asia Pacific EMC leaders got to know each other
more. The future plans of APEMC were discussed over the meeting, and
the relation between APEMC and other regional or national EMC
symposiums were also discussed constructively. Attendees were thankful
to the small gifts from the IEEE EMC Society.

The 2016 APEMC was concluded in the late afternoon of Saturday, 21 May.
The organizing committee sincerely thanks all the participants,
speakers, authors, paper reviewers, sponsors, exhibitors, technical and
advisory committee members and volunteers for making 2016 APEMC a big
success!

See you all at the
2017 APEMC
in Seoul, Korea, and 2018 joint IEEE EMC
and APEMC in Singapore!